Tim Webb posted an article on The Low-Budget Vintage Audio Junkie - Jan 3, 2011, 6:51 pm
Here's a vintage CD player from 1986...the Technics SLP-500. This one's a beauty! I don't own one of these (yes, feel sad for me...) and this isn't my video, so hopefully it won't disappear like the other one did. But I love the look of this player-- the brushed silver front, the display, and that c...
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Jazz Blog - Jan 3, 2011, 11:55 am
Nope, I'm still out here...I've just been waiting for the right moment to stage my triumphant return to blogging. Is this it? Or will this just be a New Year's Resolution gone wrong? Only time will tell. In the meantime, I'm listening to Tony Williams' Spring, which sounds pretty darn brilliant. Way...
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Low-Budget Vintage Audio Junkie - Aug 25, 2010, 9:51 am
Haven't posted here in a loooong time so here goes another one. Not too long ago I picked up a very simple, but really nice-sounding tuner, the Pioneer TX-410, for $15! Aside from a small dent on the lower right front panel, it's in amazing shape cosmetically, and electronically too. It pulls in sta...
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Jazz Blog - Aug 14, 2009, 10:08 am
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Jazz Blog - Aug 14, 2009, 10:08 am
Recently I got to see an advance screening of a new documentary called Chops. It follows a group of students in a Jacksonville, Florida high school jazz band through their discovery of jazz and ultimately to the "Essentially Ellington" competition in New York City, where they face fierce competition...
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Jazz Blog - Jul 18, 2009, 12:11 pm
Monty Alexander/Ray Brown/Herb Ellis - Overseas Special Ornette Coleman - Of Human Feelings Chico Freeman - Spirit Sensitive Jim Hall & Red Mitchell (Artists House) Elmo Hope Trio David Liebman - Trio + One Ken McIntyre - Stone Blues Jackie McLean - Rhythm of the Earth Sam Rivers - A New Conception ...
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Jazz Blog - Jul 18, 2009, 12:11 pm
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Prog Blog - Jul 18, 2009, 10:14 am
Just found this on YouTube...I had no idea any video of this band existed. I reviewed their one and only album here. I wish the quality of the clip was better but it's still pretty cool to see these guys in action. Gotta love Bernard Paganotti's jumpsuit! ;-)
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Prog Blog - Jul 18, 2009, 10:14 am
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Jazz Blog - Jul 7, 2009, 7:22 pm
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Jazz Blog - Jul 7, 2009, 7:22 pm
This record was my introduction to Dave Holland. At the time I had been playing electric bass for about 6 years and was just learning how to play upright. I heard Holland's solo on the title track and it just about blew my head off. I had no idea you could play an upright bass like that. Just on a t...
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Jazz Blog - Jun 26, 2009, 4:47 pm

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Tim Webb posted an article on The Prog Blog - Jun 26, 2009, 3:52 pm
This one gets overlooked a lot by the Italian Prog fans but in my opinion it's one of the best things to come out of Italy in the 70s! I actually picked it up completely at random many years ago...I knew absolutely nothing about it except that it was a band from Italy. Like you, I usually do a bit o...
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Prog Blog - Jun 24, 2009, 10:44 am
This looks pretty cool, I wish I lived near Seattle... Details: Join us for an intimate interview with the band YES, hosted by Jacob McMurray, EMP|SFM's senior curator. As a dominant force for more than four decades, YES has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, stretching the boundaries of pr...
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Jazz Blog - Jun 22, 2009, 5:14 pm
Several years ago I put together a website that listed jazz recordings in order of the date they were recorded. I did this primarily for myself first, as I had searched for quite a while for a site like this and much to my surprise I could never find one. I thought it would be a cool idea to have th...
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Jazz Blog - Jun 22, 2009, 10:15 am
This is my favorite jazz recording. Actually, it was originally two separate sessions: the CD reissue of Medina includes another wonderful album called Spiral from the same period and with the same killer line-up: Bobby Hutcherson on vibraphone, Harold Land on tenor sax and flute, Stanley Cowell on ...
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Prog Blog - Jun 10, 2009, 2:52 pm
Premiata Forneria Marconi - Storia Di Un Minuto My favorite PFM album and one of the best of the whole Italian prog scene, I think. "Impressioni Di Settembre" and "La Carrozza Di Hans" are personal favorites. Someone over at Progressive Ears recently posted an English translation of the lyrics and i...
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Jazz Blog - Jun 10, 2009, 2:35 pm
The Jazz Blog YouTube channel is now live and in living color! I've been putting up some rare videos and trying to mix it up and show a variety of different things. This is just the beginning, but so far we've got clips from The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Monty Alexander/Ray Brown/Herb Ellis, The Zawi...
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Prog Blog - Jun 8, 2009, 10:53 am
Somebody posted these links on the Progressive Ears forum and I thought I would share them here too. As many of you know, Jon has suffered from asthma and respiratory ailments for the last several years. Apparently at one point he had an asthma attack so severe that it nearly killed him. He now seem...
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Prog Blog - Jun 4, 2009, 8:43 pm
When I started this blog, I had wanted to put in a plug for this site, but mysteriously it happened to be down at the time I made the first attempt. In any case, that was clearly just bad timing...they have been up and going strong since then. Progressive Ears is a great online forum that I joined ...
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Low-Budget Vintage Audio Junkie - Jun 3, 2009, 2:00 pm
Okay, I know this is two YouTube videos in a row, but someone just shared this on the Steve Hoffman Music Forums and it was just too good not to post! I remember I had an Emerson system like this and I loved it. Mine had cassette, not 8-track. ;-)
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Prog Blog - Jun 2, 2009, 3:14 pm
Weidorje is a juggernaut of a band, driven along by Bernard Paganotti's aggressive fuzz bass-playing but possessing a collective spirit that is clear from listening to their music. They were an offshot group of the infamous Magma, a band that to be honest isn't really my taste, judging from the few ...
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Low-Budget Vintage Audio Junkie - Jun 2, 2009, 2:51 pm
I want mine now! Too bad it doesn't work so well in the car. Well, they may be joking, but this is actually not the first appearance of a portable turntable...it has been tried before. Check out this puppy!... I found this at the Boombox Museum... a wonderful place to kill an hour or two! Some real...
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Jazz Blog - Jun 2, 2009, 9:57 am
If aliens came down to visit earth and asked me what "swing" was, I would play them some Oscar Peterson. I mean, nobody plays with the feel that he does...you can't possibly listen without moving or tapping your feet. Hello Herbie sort of flew in under the radar as far as Peterson's recordings go. H...
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Jazz Blog - May 28, 2009, 4:28 pm
One of my daughter's favorite albums is Ornette Coleman's Of Human Feelings. Now, obviously she didn't come to discover this brilliant album on her own, she was introduced to it by dear old Dad. But it wasn't like I had to force her...she took one listen and was interested right away. What kid would...
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Prog Blog - May 26, 2009, 2:43 pm
I picked this CD up many years ago after I heard the closing track "Undrar Om Ni Ser." Though I liked it the first time I listened, it was one of those things that really started to grow on me even more after repeated plays, and when it had finally taken hold I just had to buy the CD. The whole albu...
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Jazz Blog - May 26, 2009, 7:00 am
This is a group that I wish had made more records. Alto saxophonist Byron Allen was brought to the ESP label by Ornette Coleman, and he owes a debt to Coleman on a musical level as well, with a sound that is very influenced by him. In fact, this group covers similar territory to Ornette's mid-60s tr...
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Prog Blog - May 19, 2009, 4:32 pm
This album always makes me smile. I know it's supposedly been made superfluous now by a number of other releases, remasters, etc. that also include the extra tracks that were at the time previously unreleased ("America" and "Dear Father"). But I always come back to this particular compilation. It's ...
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Prog Blog - May 14, 2009, 8:37 am
If you are a fan of that great old Mellotron sound, then you may well have already found this, but I'm going to post it here anyway...Mellotron.com has lots of great info and tasty tidbits about the sound we know and love. And there is a nice list of recordings featuring the Mellotron on the site he...
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Low-Budget Vintage Audio Junkie - May 11, 2009, 1:38 pm
This is wild...remember my "Cassettes are still a great format" post from a couple of weeks ago? Well, I honestly had no idea that according to some people, cassette tapes are actually having somewhat of a resurgence in popularity. Check out this article from the Telegraph in the UK... Rewind to the...
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Low-Budget Vintage Audio Junkie - May 7, 2009, 12:38 pm
I gotta give a shout-out here to The Vintage Knob. I found out about this site through a forum I am a member of...hadn't seen it before a few months or so ago. Unfortunately just looking at it makes me want more gear. ;-) The site is loaded with specs and great photos of equipment from the 70s & 80s...
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Low-Budget Vintage Audio Junkie - May 1, 2009, 10:44 am
Up until about a year and a half ago, I was fooled too. Digitally remastered? Don't believe the hype. Not all digital remasters are bad, but there sure has been a serious epidemic of horrendously offensive sounding remasters in the last 10-15 years or so. Let's take the Yes catalog, for example...it...
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Low-Budget Vintage Audio Junkie - Apr 28, 2009, 3:51 pm
I know, call me crazy, but I think there is still a lot to like about cassettes. People complain about the sound quality and durability and, fair enough, they don't approach the sound of a good LP. But I've owned some tapes that sounded pretty darn good, and found a lot of them in cutouts bins for a...
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Tim Webb posted an article on The Low-Budget Vintage Audio Junkie - Apr 28, 2009, 10:32 am
Boy, I used to love Technics equipment when I was a kid. And still do! I know a lot of audiophiles will turn their nose up at this, but really, these guys made some great equipment back in the day. At the moment I am listening to the beauty pictured here, the Technics SA-350, which was made back in ...
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